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April 26, 2025
Canadian Independent Bookstore Day
Time and Place: April 26.
Web: https://cibabooks.ca/
Visit local bookstores today!
the Ottawa Indie Bookstore Crawl 2025
Web: www.instagram.com/p/DICSt1jOyrN/?igsh=MXFiY2F3aDYwanFycg%3D%3D
Octopus Books, The Spaniel's Tale, Books on Beechwood, Perfect Books, Singing Pebble, World of Maps
Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Mammoth Book Sale
Time and Place: 10:00 am. James Bartleman Centre, 100 Tallwood Drive
Web: www.fopla-aabpo.ca/events/category/mammoth-sale/
from 10 am to 2 pm
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April 2025 Events
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    CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Online Story Swap 7:30pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm		 CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Silent Book Club - Constance Bay 7:00pm
Sucker Punch with Scaachi Koul 7:00pm
Capstone Reading 7:30pm		 Third World Players 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		 CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am Collaborative Zine Making 2:00pm
Perfect Books Presents: Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre with Mark Bourrie 7:00pm
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Common House Issue 5 Launch Party 7:00pm		 Sunnyside Writers' Group with Michael F. Stewart 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 MASC Young Authors & Illustrators Festival
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
Silent Book Club - Bells Corners 6:30pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm		 MASC Young Authors & Illustrators Festival
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Sumac Literary Magazine – Issue 3 Launch Party 6:30pm
Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm		 Mutchmor Book Sale
Book launch: The Poilievre Project A radical blueprint for corporate rule by Martin Lukacs 5:30pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Silent Book Club - Vanier 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		 Mutchmor Book Sale
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Off the Pages: A Celebration of Banned Books 6:30pm		 Can Con 2025
Mutchmor Book Sale
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Mutchmor Book Sale
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm		 In the Company of Writers 2:00pm
Collage Club 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers: Story Cafe 7:00pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Ottawa Centre 7:00pm		 Bywords.ca
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CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
RPL Acoustic Music Jam 6:00pm
Carleton University Presents: A Half-Built Garden with Ruthanna Emrys 7:00pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata 7:00pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm		 CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
House of Anansi Poetry Bash with AF Moritz, Clémence Dumas-Côté, Farah Ghafoor and Karen Solie. 7:00pm
Passed the Threshold, and Back 7:00pm
Storytelling Open Mic 7:15pm		 Silent Book Club - Hintonburg 2:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Sad Girl Cafe 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		 CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am #WriteOttawa 10:00am
Zine Workshop 6:00pm
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm		 Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Books on Beechwood Book Club 1:30pm
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Ben Ladouceur: Book Launch, I Remember Lights 7:30pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm		 CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Our Power Our Planet: Working Together for the Next Generations 12:30pm
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Canadian Authors' Association National Capital Region MONTHLY MEETINGS 7:00pm
Deborah-Anne Tunney, Poetry Workshop: Crafting Poems for Publication
Silent Book Club - East End 7:00pm		 Authors Meet Readers 5:30pm
Criminalized Lives: HIV and Legal Violence
Third World Players 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		 the Ottawa Indie Bookstore Crawl 2025
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am		 Canadian Independent Bookstore Day
the Ottawa Indie Bookstore Crawl 2025
Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Mammoth Book Sale 10:00am
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the Ottawa Indie Bookstore Crawl 2025
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Earth Day Festival 10:15am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Amanda Earl, Margo La Pierre, Lisa Richter and Chuqiao Lang 2:00pm
(un)told 2025 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm		 In the Company of Writers 2:00pm
Collage Club 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm		 CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Night Oat Open Stage 7:00pm